Bell Ringer: Editing Practice

Edit the short paragraph titled "A Monument for September 11." Look for grammar, usage, punctuation, and spelling.

New Unit!

Essential Question: How do society's stereotypes and expectations affect our perspective of self?
For this unit of study, we will spend some time examining issues such as gender, race, and ethnicity and discussing the norms and expectations that society can often hold us to. We will use anchor and supplemental texts from your textbook, as well as teacher-selected texts.

Writing Goals

Drawing inferences and supporting with text evidence.
Analyzing for purpose and style and supporting with text evidence.
  • PEE paragraphs
  • chunks
  • embedded quotations
  • Literary Analysis
  • Socratic Circles
  • Journaling for independent reading- Student selected books that deal with societal norms.
CCSS Standards:

Unit Intro: Who Does the World Think You Are?

Think about the stereotypes that would affect you. Race? Gender? Ethnicity? Religion? Social Group?
List them! Let's identify them, good and bad, true and false.

Reading

Anchor Text: "The Female Body" by Margaret Atwood
Word Study

Read and annotate the excerpt together.

Mini-Lesson

  • Model It Says, I Say, So Chart
  • In groups, do your own chart on chart paper.
  • Short Gallery Walk- You have 1 min 30 secs at each chart. Bring your passage and a pencil to annotate for things you didn't note in your reading.
  • Vote- Most Thought-Provoking!



Homework

By Monday (9/21/15)
Revise your essay and do a final draft. Because of technology issues, this may be typed or handwritten for now, but save that file if you type it! We will put this on blogs as soon as we are able to create blogs!

BY TOMMORROW (9/18/2015)!
Create a Gmail account using the following format:
CHS + first initial + last name @gmail.com

Example: CHSjsmith@gmail.com

Email me at **mrsenglishalley@gmail.com** with your name and your password. (Please note- I only need your password to help you access your account if there is a problem. This is why you need a separate account for school; I do not want your personal email password.)